Uploaded this archive first time in August 2000 but somehow it got
replaced so here it is again.

2002-10-17


From the original readme:

--snip------------------------------------------------------------

Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the
'b'), based on ping.

Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average)
throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times
for different packet sizes for each end of the link.

Suppose we are on host A and want to know the throughput between
L1 and L2, two extremities of a point-to-point link.

	A ----( the Internet )--- L1 --- L2

If we know the rtt (roundtrip time) between A and L1, and the rtt
between A and L2, we can deduce the rtt between L1 and L2.

If we do that for two different packet sizes, we can compute the
raw capacity (bps) of the link.

Note that bing can also be used to have an idea of ethernet cards
performance.

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[generic]                16971   30052  56.5% -lh5- f18b Aug 23  2000 bing-1.1.3/bing.040
[generic]                16828   29904  56.3% -lh5- 153a Aug 23  2000 bing-1.1.3/bing.060
[generic]                 6027   14549  41.4% -lh5- 50b0 Aug 23  2000 bing-1.1.3/bing.ps
[generic]                 1543    3283  47.0% -lh5- 3050 Jun  6  1997 bing-1.1.3/ChangeLog
[generic]                 1716    3889  44.1% -lh5- 2e84 Jun  6  1997 bing-1.1.3/Readme.1st
[generic]                 5189   11785  44.0% -lh5- c888 Jun  6  1997 bing-1.1.3/Readme.txt
[generic]                13474   41690  32.3% -lh5- be1d Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/bing.c
[generic]                 1543    3283  47.0% -lh5- 3050 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/ChangeLog
[generic]                 2768    6631  41.7% -lh5- c3bf Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/include/netinet/ip.h
[generic]                 2602    6600  39.4% -lh5- 261e Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/include/netinet/ip_icmp.h
[generic]                 3056    8071  37.9% -lh5- 9826 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/include/netinet/ip_var.h
[generic]                 1019    2256  45.2% -lh5- 6a67 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/Makefile
[generic]                 1177    3085  38.2% -lh5- 3f3b Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/makefile.nt
[generic]                  712    1924  37.0% -lh5- 0319 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/mod_icmp.h
[generic]                 1716    3889  44.1% -lh5- 2e84 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/Readme.1st
[generic]                 5189   11785  44.0% -lh5- c888 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/Readme.txt
[generic]                 3462    7801  44.4% -lh5- 703e Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/unix/bing.8
[generic]                 2078    5542  37.5% -lh5- 0545 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/unix/icmp_ux.c
[generic]                 2498    6593  37.9% -lh5- 9c41 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/win32/bing.txt
[generic]                 1822    3996  45.6% -lh5- 9451 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/win32/getopt.c
[generic]                 2758    8568  32.2% -lh5- e670 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/win32/icmp_win32.c
[generic]                  220     427  51.5% -lh5- 9355 Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/win32/types.h
[generic]                  120     176  68.2% -lh5- efaa Oct 17  2002 bing-1.1.3/src/win32/win32.h
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